About NeuroNova Centre
NeuroNova Centre for Mindful Solutions Inc. (NNC) was established in 2010 to offer professional trainings in Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM™).
This work evolved from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn to further customize it for those living with chronic pain, a process that started in 2002 at St Michael’s Hospital’s pain clinic, Toronto, and incorporated Sunnybrook Health Science’s Centre’s pain clinic and telemedicine service from 2003.
The trauma-sensitive, trauma-informed MBCPM™ detailed curriculum is available to professionals who train to facilitate the courses for patients.
NNC collaborates with the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (UTSCS) to:
- offer the patient/client course to professionals (the MBCPMTM Practical Training); and,
- offer training and mentorship to those who plan to facilitate the course (MBCPMTM Curriculum Training Intensive; and Curriculum Implementation and Development).
Dr. Gardner-Nix talks about Mindfulness resulting in the neuroplasticity that changes how the mind/body experiences pain, reducing suffering and improving quality of life.
Professional Trainings
Practical Training (PT)
MBCPM™ Practical Training (PT)
The MBCPM™ course as taught to patients: Experiencing it first.
Curriculum Training Intensive (CTI)
MBCPM™ Curriculum Training Intensive (CTI)
Work from the MBCPM™ facilitators' manual with an experienced facilitator to explore the elements of skilled facilitation.
Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID)
MBCPM™ Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID)
Develop your meditation guidance and inquiry skills and explore some of the underpinnings of Mindfulness practice which are clinically effective.
Trauma-Sensitive Trauma-Informed General Mindfulness Facilitation (TS/TI)
Trauma-Sensitive Trauma-Informed General Mindfulness Facilitation (TS/TI)
Communicating skillfully and giving choice and agency; enhancing your trauma-informed, trauma-sensitive skills.
Events
Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM™) Course Tait/Bezaire
Patients learn the principles of mindful meditation, the benefits of living in the moment, and how these relate to suffering less pain. This course is customized more toward those suffering migraines and post-traumatic headaches. Course Dates: January 2022 Start Facilitators: Christie Tait and Grace Bezaire
1 January 2022
January Start TBA
Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM™) Course Singh/Bezaire
Patients learn the principles of mindful meditation, the benefits of living in the moment, and how these relate to suffering less pain. Course Dates: Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm ET beginning November 27 to December 18, 2021 and January 8 to 29, 2022 Facilitators Pawan Singh and Grace Bezaire
27 November 2021
10:00 am to 1:00 pm ET
Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM™) Course Uher/Joel
Patients learn the principles of mindful meditation, the benefits of living in the moment, and how these relate to suffering less pain. Course Dates: Wednesdays 6:00 to 8:30 pm from October 27 to December 15, 2021 Facilitators Lisa Uher and Debbie Joel
27 October 2021
6:00 to 8:30 pm ET
NNC Masterclass
For Professional Mindfulness Practitioners - Guiding Mindfulness Practices: Practicing Your Preamble, Guidance, and Inquiry Skills in Meditation Delivery
6 October 2021
12:00 PM ET
Alumni Online Maintenance Classes: “Mindfulness Matters Maintenance”
Maintain your resilience through mindfulness practice. These online and interactive Zoom classes welcome: Alumni of MBCPM™ programmes who attended the course in full; and, Anyone who has done a mindfulness programme elsewhere may apply with a physician's referral.
11 October 2021
7.00 PM ET
MBCPM™ Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID)
MBCPM™ Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID) Instructors Grace Bezaire, B.A. and Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix
16 October 2021
10:00 am ET
MBCPM™ Practical Training (PT)
MBCPM™ Practical Training (PT) on Saturdays, 10 am to 1 pm from November 27, 2021 to January 15, 2022 With Instructors Angie Kingma RP, OT Reg.(Ont.) and Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix This online training provides learners with the experience of the MBCPM™ patients' course.
27 November 2021
10:00 AM ET
Pre-Register for Free Mindful Movements on Thursday
Share in our Mindful Movement practice and interact collectively in these challenging times.
30 September 2021
7.00 PM ET
Trauma-Sensitive and Trauma-Informed General Mindfulness Facilitation (TS/TI)
Trauma-Sensitive and Trauma-Informed General Mindfulness Facilitation (TSTI) With Instructor Dr. Allen Steverman
2 October 2021
9:00 AM
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Port Hope forms part of the traditional and treaty territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Mississauga, and Wendake-Nionwentsïo Nations, and the Williams (1923) treaty territory of the Mississauga/Eastern Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) and Anishinaabe. It is on these ancestral and treaty lands that we mindfully write, meet/gather, teach, learn, and live.